Milestones

Learning from the pastThe German family business was founded in 1845 by Carl Philipp Fissler in Idar-Oberstein. Today the brand stands for cooking with pleasure and passion and is one of the world’s leading brands for high-quality cookware.

Fissler is still family-owned, as it was over 170 years ago, and employs around 700 people. Worldwide a Fissler brand product is bought every three seconds. By the way: some 90% of all products are manufactured in Germany.

The principal milestones:

1845Carl Philipp Fissler founds the company in Idar-Oberstein – originally as a plumbing and fitting business.

1892Fissler invents the field kitchen and switches its focus to the production of pots and pans.

1953Fissler develops vitavit®, the first pressure cooker with a multi-setting control valve.

1956Fissler is the first German manufacturer to produce a nonstick (PTFE) coating to ensure the pans are particularly durable and easy to clean.

1973In Hoppstädten-Weiersbach, in the Rhineland-Palatinate, Fissler founds a second plant with a production area of 11,000 m2. Fissler also presents the innovative saftomat® roaster with a strainer inset for automatic liquid feed.

1980The first stainless steel cookware line with stay-cool metal handles conquers the market.

1989Fissler introduces the Fissler magic line cookware range, which offers ingenious functions and products that are designed to satisfy the requirements of modern cooking methods. The line wins 15 international design awards.